Second Life Server? Not Open, any soon
Bad news: it seems that the Second Life Server code will not become “open source” anytime soon.
This is bad, because without open source software, Second Life is going to lose ground.
Second Life is basically a PLATFORM: Linden Lab needs to focus on the added value ON TOP OF that Platform, not on the platform per se. Big players will slowly move to a closed-source platform, while they’d quickly embrace an open one.
Linden Lab needs to OPEN it. Period.
What do you think about it? Agree with me?
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The post you reference is slightly misleading. The issues that Lanphier refers to are the same basic issues that Linden Lab said it would have with the code when they first announced their intention to release it as open source back in 2005.
Back then, they said the process would take some years to get everything into a state when it would be ready. Some pieces of server-side code have already made it out, and I expect over the next couple of years that much of the remainder will do so.
So, essentially nothing much seems to have changed on the roadmap since 2005.